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The Comprehension of Grammatical Structures in a Pediatric Population with ASD and Epilepsy: A Comparative Study
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Alejandro Cano Villagrasa; Nadia Porcar Gozalbo; Beatriz Valles González; Miguel López-Zamora – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and epilepsy represent a comorbidity that negatively influences the proper development of linguistic competencies, particularly in receptive language, in the pediatric population. This group displays impairments in the auditory comprehension of both simple and complex grammatical structures, significantly limiting…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Epilepsy, Comorbidity, Language Proficiency
Brief Report: Associations between Preverbal Social Communication Skills, Language and Symptom Severity in Children with Autism--An Investigation Using the Early Sociocognitive Battery
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Taylor, Lauren J.; Charman, Tony; Howlin, Patricia; Slonims, Vicky; Green, Jonathan; Aldred, Catherine; Aldred, Catherine; Le Couteur, Ann; Emsley, Richard A.; Grahame, Victoria; Humphrey, Neil; Leadbitter, Kathy; McConachie, Helen; Parr, Jeremy R.; Pickles, Andrew; Taylor, Carol; Balabanovska, Matea; Beach, Hilary; Byford, Sarah; Bennett, Claire; Carruthers, Sophie; Crook, Imogen; Danvers, Hannah; Dartnall, Kate; Ellis, Ceri; Foote, Hannah; Graham, Jessica; James, Kirsty; Jamieson, Sarah; Knight, Anna; Lowe, Jo; Madeley, Ruth; Mitchell, Olivia; Monteiro, Francisca; Moore, Heather L.; Morley, Helen; Rose, Jessica; Rogan, Leanne; Vosper, Susanna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
We investigated the early sociocognitive battery (ESB), a novel measure of preverbal social communication skills, in children with autism participating in the Paediatric Autism Communication Trial-Generalised (PACT-G). The associations between ESB scores, language and autism symptoms were assessed in 249 children aged 2-11 years. The results show…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Communication
Do Verbal Children with Autism Comprehend Gesture as Readily as Typically Developing Children?
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Dimitrova, Nevena; Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Gesture comprehension remains understudied, particularly in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have difficulties in gesture production. Using a novel gesture comprehension task, Study 1 examined how 2- to 4-year-old typically-developing (TD) children comprehend types of gestures and gesture-speech combinations, and showed better…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication
Language Differences at 12 Months in Infants Who Develop Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Lazenby, DeWayne C.; Sideridis, Georgios D.; Huntington, Noelle; Prante, Matthew; Dale, Philip S.; Curtin, Suzanne; Henkel, Lisa; Iverson, Jana M.; Carver, Leslie; Dobkins, Karen; Akshoomoff, Natacha; Tagavi, Daina; Nelson, Charles A., III; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Little is known about early language development in infants who later develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We analyzed prospective data from 346 infants, some of whom were at high risk for developing ASD, to determine if language differences could be detected at 12 months of age in the infants who later were diagnosed with ASD. Analyses…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Infants, Language Acquisition
Brief Report: Fast Mapping Predicts Differences in Concurrent and Later Language Abilities among Children with ASD
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Venker, Courtney E.; Kover, Sara T.; Weismer, Susan Ellis – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
This study investigated whether the ability to learn word-object associations following minimal exposure (i.e., fast mapping) was associated with concurrent and later language abilities in children with ASD. Children who were poor learners at age 3½ had significantly lower receptive language abilities than children who successfully learned the new…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Eye-Tracking Measurements of Language Processing: Developmental Differences in Children at High Risk for ASD
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Chita-Tegmark, Meia; Arunachalam, Sudha; Nelson, Charles A.; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
To explore how being at high risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), based on having an older sibling diagnosed with ASD, affects word comprehension and language processing speed, 18-, 24- and 36-month-old children, at high and low risk for ASD were tested in a cross-sectional study, on an eye gaze measure of receptive language that measured how…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Siblings, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Language in Low-Functioning Children with Autistic Disorder: Differences between Receptive and Expressive Skills and Concurrent Predictors of Language
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Maljaars, Jarymke; Noens, Ilse; Scholte, Evert; van Berckelaer-Onnes, Ina – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Language profiles of children with autistic disorder and intellectual disability (n = 36) were significantly different from the comparison groups of children with intellectual disability (n = 26) and typically developing children (n = 34). The group low-functioning children with autistic disorder obtained a higher mean score on expressive than on…
Descriptors: Autism, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Mental Retardation
Language Abilities of Children with Asperger Syndrome
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Saalasti, Satu; Lepisto, Tuulia; Toppila, Esko; Kujala, Teija; Laakso, Minna; Nieminen-von Wendt, Taina; von Wendt, Lennart; Jansson-Verkasalo, Eira – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Current diagnostic taxonomies (ICD-10, DSM-IV) emphasize normal acquisition of language in Asperger syndrome (AS). Although many linguistic sub-skills may be fairly normal in AS there are also contradictory findings. There are only few studies examining language skills of children with AS in detail. The aim of this study was to study language…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Language Impairments, Receptive Language, Language Skills
Sentence Comprehension Strategies in Children with Autism and Specific Language Disorders. Brief Report.
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Paul, Rhea; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1988
Six autistic children and seven children with relatively specific language impairment were asked to act out a series of sentences. Both groups made little use of a semantically based probable event strategy but were more likely to use a syntactically based word order strategy, similar to normals matched for receptive language age. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Autism, Child Development, Comprehension, Language Handicaps